"I used to kill and revive Goni more than twelve times a day"
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How long does it take to create a worthy film adaptation of a great original work? The comics Tazza ("Tazza: The High Rollers"), which had been made into a commercially successful film last year, is to be produced as a TV drama and an animation because of its huge success both as an original comics and film. However, adapting it into film was not easy. Some even questioned whether it would ever be made into a film, partly because the original comic book featured characters too numerous to be introduced in a film. However, director Choi Dong-hoon wanted to recreate this comics so that "even those middle-aged men who go to a baduk club" will get to see it.
At first, he began working on the adaptation, thinking it would be easy to make a scenario out of the seven-volume comic book. However, for the next six months, he would not complete even one sentence. Because the original story introduced about 150 characters whose lives intertwined with one another in a complex web of symbiotic relationships, he could not decide on where he even should begin.
The first thing he eventually did was sorting out all of these characters. He excluded characters that seemed unnecessary, and combined some of them to create a new character, such as the sensational Ms. Jung, which was played by Kim Hye-soo. The "woman who is rustic but evil" is transformed into a "passively offensive" lady who later becomes the storyteller in the film.
"This film is about people who want Goni. Everyone wishes to have him, and he has to get away from them. In fact, every character in the film is a "tazza" (a player) except Goni. That way, the film would be plausible, I thought. For the main character should be different from the characteristics surrounding him or her", said Choi.
"Although the comic book Sin City broke away from the typical look and feel of comics, it is difficult to get the same effect that a film would have from a comic book because a film is at least fifty times more detailed than a comic book".
He says that shooting scenes for playing Korean playing cards was particularly difficult. "In a film, the most difficult scene to shoot is a dining scene. Playing cards is as difficult as that. Characters fight for money. To express that pregnant stillness in gambling, I had to use the camera like a pen".
The Source : Koreacontent News Team
At first, he began working on the adaptation, thinking it would be easy to make a scenario out of the seven-volume comic book. However, for the next six months, he would not complete even one sentence. Because the original story introduced about 150 characters whose lives intertwined with one another in a complex web of symbiotic relationships, he could not decide on where he even should begin.
The first thing he eventually did was sorting out all of these characters. He excluded characters that seemed unnecessary, and combined some of them to create a new character, such as the sensational Ms. Jung, which was played by Kim Hye-soo. The "woman who is rustic but evil" is transformed into a "passively offensive" lady who later becomes the storyteller in the film.
"This film is about people who want Goni. Everyone wishes to have him, and he has to get away from them. In fact, every character in the film is a "tazza" (a player) except Goni. That way, the film would be plausible, I thought. For the main character should be different from the characteristics surrounding him or her", said Choi.
"Although the comic book Sin City broke away from the typical look and feel of comics, it is difficult to get the same effect that a film would have from a comic book because a film is at least fifty times more detailed than a comic book".
He says that shooting scenes for playing Korean playing cards was particularly difficult. "In a film, the most difficult scene to shoot is a dining scene. Playing cards is as difficult as that. Characters fight for money. To express that pregnant stillness in gambling, I had to use the camera like a pen".
The Source : Koreacontent News Team
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